8 - DEPTH STUDY - GILDED AGE

Question 1

Literacy

Answer 1

Main improvemnet of the period
5% could read in 1865
50% could read in 1895

Question 2

AA in work

Answer 2

increasing amount of AA in careers such as lawyers, doctors, artists and teachers
47,000 (out of a population of 8million though)

Question 3

black organisations

Answer 3

increasing amount of black chirch organisations, banks, societies and insurance schemes

Question 4

Haynes tilden copromise

Answer 4

agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Hayes to settle 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
allowed black codes to be implemented freely and states to overlook recosntruction laws

Question 5

plessey v frugeuson 1896

Answer 5

homer plessey attempted to use a white only carriage on a train
teh court eventually ruled against plesssey, setting a legal precedent for segregaton

Question 6

tennnesee 1881

Answer 6

introduced segregated transport, whcih would eventually continue acorss many southern states

Question 7

voting restirctions

Answer 7

state governments were able to enforce restrictions to prevent AA voters -
* literacy tests
* grandfather clauses
* taxes

aswell as intimidation and violence

Question 8

jim crow laws

Answer 8

• enforced segrgeation in teh south, ie in hospitals, cemeteries ect
• placed restirctions on relations between teh differing races including sex and marriage

Question 9

unfair justice system

Answer 9

a dispeoporitonate number of black people inrpisoned or arrested
mob violence, lynching ect was also ignored by local governments

Question 10

segrgetated norther districts

Answer 10

• chicago - 5000 AA in an area
• Harlem (new york) - 23,000 in that district

Question 11

african american indivudals during the gilded age

Answer 11

• Ida b. Wells
• Booker T. washington
• W.E.B De Bois

Question 12

Ida B. Wells

Answer 12

led a campiagn against lynching afyer teh death of her friend
through writings, lectures and teh creation of anti-lynching societies

Question 13

Booker T. washington

Answer 13

• tuskeegee institue in 1881
• attempted to provide AA with literacy and vocational skills
• agreed with segrgeation
• well regarded with white pople
• placed improtance on the independnance of blacks

Question 14

W.E.B de bois

Answer 14

disgareed with Booker
believed social change could be achieve through protest and agitation
* pan-africanism
* black nationalism

Question 15

lynching

Answer 15

in 1890s one killed every two days
ofetn as a result of minor offences or faulse accusations

Question 16

souther stereo type of AA

Answer 16

social darwinism and racial hierachy supported the southern belief that sgegration was justififed, as blacks were weak, lazy and violent

Question 17

effect of economic depression on the fight for civil rights

Answer 17

less AA were concerned with securing righst as their own day to day survival was more improtant

Question 18

Oppostiion to civil rights

Answer 18

KKK
local governments (voting retsirctions, jim crow, black codes)
supreme court - plessey v feruegson

Question 19

KKK

Answer 19

believed in white supremace, conducted extreme violence and lynchings agsint black people
prevent them from voting

Question 20

westward expansion

Answer 20

many AA did not have the funds to move west, whilst 40,000 did
nearly 1/4 of all cowboys wer AA